The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

著者

• 福沢, 諭吉 フクザワ, ユキチ
• 清岡, 暎一 キヨオカ, エイイチ

書誌事項

The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

revised translation by Eiichi Kiyooka ; with a foreword by Carmen Blacker

Columbia University Press, 1966

1st American ed

タイトル別名

福翁自伝

注記

Translation of: 福翁自伝

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and more extraordinary changes than any other in the history of Japan. In his country's swift transformation from an isolated feudal state to a full-fledged member of the modern world, Fukuzawa played a leading role: he was the educator of the new Japan, the man who above all others explained to his countrymen the ideas behind the dazzling material evidence of Western civilization. Dictated by Fukuzawa in 1897, this book vividly relates his story, from his childhood as a member of the lower samurai class in a small, caste-bound village. His escape from the hopeless destiny decreed by his social position, his adventures as a student of Dutch (the language of the only Westerners allowed in Japan), his travels aboard the first Japanese ship to sail to America -- all prepared Fukuzawa to write Seiyo Jijo (Things Western), the book which made him famous. His special perspective on Japan's tempestuous 19th century gives Fukuzawa's life story added fascination.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA1316708X
• ISBN:
  • 0231083734
• LCCN: 66015468
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: jpn
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 407 p., [6] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 21 cm